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Group of five students who work on synthetic biology projects in white lab coats sitting around a table filled with beakers and others scientific equipment.

Undergraduate students use bacteria to create clean energy

Tue, 03 Dec 2024

The student-led team used synthetic biology to harness clean energy from bacteria while simultaneously capturing and storing carbon dioxide, taking home a gold medal in the process.

looping video of glacier ice melting and dripping.

On thinning ice

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

A pair of Rochester historians are chronicling the history of the world’s glacial regions—and human responses to their rapid disappearance.

Aerial view of the River Campus and Medical Center Campus that has been posterized to illustrate campus master planning.

University of Rochester kicks off master planning process

Tue, 04 Jun 2024

Faculty, staff, and students help to inform the University’s physical future.
Exterior of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics building expansion against a blue sky.

Laboratory for Laser Energetics opens doors on pivotal building expansion

Fri, 31 May 2024

The first major addition to LLE in more than two decades includes clean room facilities to advance next-generation laser science and technologies.
student emerges from rotating cylinder as part of a fun house

April 2024 in Photos

Tue, 30 Apr 2024

From totality to Springfest and everything in between, here’s how we spent April at the University of Rochester.
Close-up of fingers covered in tiny shards of microplastics.

Research hub aims to unravel health effects of microplastic pollution

Sat, 20 Apr 2024

The Rochester-based center will let researchers to investigate the interactions between plastic pollution, the Great Lakes environment, and human health.
Andrea Tompkins Wright portrait.

University names first associate vice president for real estate, portfolio management, and planning

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

The new position will lead the real estate strategy for the University of Rochester’s on- and off-campus spaces.

New federal funding approved for Laboratory for Laser Energetics’ Omega Facility

Tue, 12 Mar 2024

The funding enables LLE’s national security efforts in inertial confinement fusion, high-energy-density physics research, and laser technology development.
Pipette releasing a water droplet atop carbon paper to illustrate the remediation of pfas forever chemicals.

Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ removed from water with new electrocatalysis method

Tue, 05 Mar 2024

A novel approach using laser-made nanomaterials made from nonprecious metals could lay the foundation for globally scalable remediation techniques.

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